2025
All AI Art Is **** — and the Consequences for Gen-AI-Enhanced Software Development
Offensive opinions, a Godwin's Law warning, and an unapologetic take on what generative AI art means for how we build software.
Talks
A curated archive of presentations, keynotes, and workshops on developer tooling, software architecture, and team dynamics. Slides are self-hosted here — owned, indexable, and permanent.
2026
Building Open Source with LLMs
From purl-patrol to the ecosyste.ms CLI — developing and releasing open-source projects with agentic LLM workflows.
2025
Of Chameleons, Pipelines, Compliance, and Open Source
BitkomSBOMs, package URLs, and purl-patrol — keeping open-source supply chains compliant without losing the plot.
2025
10 Experiments, 10 Learnings
Picking the interesting examples out of 200 prototypes built with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Windsurf — what actually held up.
2025
Observability Worst Practices: A Measured Tier List
A tier list of the ways teams get observability wrong — ranked, with receipts.
2023
Agile — How Much of a Cult Is It?
A frank look at where agile practice tips over into ritual and belief — and what to keep when it does.
2014
Surviving Your Front-End
What millions of lines of HTML and JS taught me about keeping large front-end codebases alive and maintainable.
2014
Nonviolent Communication: A Rather Violent Introduction
XP DaysAn introduction to Nonviolent Communication for developers and agile teams — and why it matters when people work this closely together.
2014
Design Thinking & Scrum
Bringing design thinking and mobile UX into the Scrum process to keep delivery anchored in real user needs.
2014
Pair Programming
Theory, practice, and the critics — from promiscuous pairing and pair hinging to test-first pairing, dojos, flow, and group flow.
2014
Social Human Architecture for Beginners
On the social architecture of teams, from a developer-turned-Scrum-Master working across five teams.